VNC was: [thelist] Re: motherboards

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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VNC is also very, very useful for browser testing.

I did some browser testing from my Win/IE5.5 laptop controlling
a Win/IE4 box in a test lab in another country last week. Saves
all this messing around with multi-boot setups, and lets you test
a number of variables including network performance to a remote
location.

The only thing I really noticed was that the pointer was a touch slow
following the mouse.

Timbuktu for Mac is similar.

Cheers
Martin




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the head lemur wrote:

>The KVM switch is important for running multiple PC's with Windows OS's as
>windows does not run "headless" unlike Linux.
>
I am currently running a win2000 server for my home network "headless".
 The trick is to get hold of a free program called VNC (Virtual Network
Computing).  It can be found here: www.uk.research.att.com/vnc

This means that the server only requires a power supply and a network
connection.  We have just started to roll out new PCs @ work and are
amazed with the ease of using VNC over the current system which used a
commercial package that we are still having problems with and never
really got working correctly.

VNC also works on a linux box and will allow connection from either a
client program (available for most platforms) or a built in http
interface that uses a java applet.


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